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Ingres
Last modified: Tuesday, June 19, 2007
An open sourceRDBMS
that started as a research project at Berkeley in the 1970's. There are now
two strains of Ingres; the university Ingres (also known as Berkeley Ingres),
which is open source, and also a commercial version called OpenIngres, which
uses SQL and some forms of QUEL as its language for
queries and database transactions. The university Ingres is believed to be the
first implementation of a relational database management system that pre-dates
IBM's System R. Version 8.9 was the last public
release of University Ingres and it was discontinued in 1985. Ingres is also
written as INGRES.
Completed Berkeley Database Projects The University INGRES project, one of the pioneering relational database management systems, was discontinued in 1985.
LinuxWorld: Analysis: Open source databases Until recently, databases have been a relative unknown amongst open source software. However, the increasing adoption of open source database technology by well-known multinational organizations has led to more enterprise recognition and hence consideration.
University INGRES Historical documents for University INGRES Version 8.9